Lawmakers push action on permanent nuclear waste disposal options

LAGUNA NIGUEL — Will Yucca Mountain ever see an ounce of nuclear waste? Will hopes for temporary storage in Texas and New Mexico ever become reality? Will the $43 billion languishing in the Nuclear Waste Storage Fund ever do more than earn interest?
Lawmakers, regulators, scientists and community members renewed calls for congressional action and peered into their crystal balls on Friday, June 7, at a special field hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s Subcomm